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Priority Pass is running its Spring Promotion right now and its offering travelers up to 20% off the full annual fee. Taking a look at the prices that are being offered on the US and UK Priority Pass websites I couldn’t help but notice that flyers in the US appear to be paying more than their counterparts across the Pond.
Here’s the US promotion pricing:
And here’s the UK promotion:
Allowing for an exchange rate of around 1.4 dollars to the pound the UK prices look like this:
- Standard – $77
- Standard Plus – $189
- Prestige – $326
Ok, so on the standard tariff there isn’t really any difference in price but on the Standard Plus tariff the saving is 10% and the saving on the Prestige tariff isn’t far off 10% either.
On top of that don’t forget the fees members pay on some visits (depending on the membership level) and which guests have to pay on every visit.
Priority Pass UK members pay £15/visit ($21) while US Priority Pass members pay $27.
If there was a way for US flyers to get a UK Priority Pass membership that would be a saving of 22% per visit.
I always assumed that the Priority Pass website would automatically stop anyone with a US address from signing up….but now I’m not so sure.
If you follow this link to the UK Priority Pass website and select the Standard Plus membership (for example) you’re taken to a page that asks you to select your residence:
If you then select “United Kingdom” as your country of residence you’re taken to the joining page….
…where you’re asked to fill in your personal details:
You can fill in your real details (except a US phone number won’t work so a 10-digit number beginning with 7 works) and, as the country is already pre-selected you can’t change that either (but that may not be an issue):
The next stage is the delivery address section and this is where things look promising as you can add a US address without any issue:
The penultimate step is where you create an account….
…and last, but not least, you enter your payment details…..
…at which point the Priority Pass website allows you to use your US delivery address as your billing address (if you try this make sure you use a credit card that doesn’t charge foreign transaction fees).
I haven’t been any further than this point because I already have more Priority Pass memberships than I know what to do with….but unless the site can tell the difference between a US and UK credit card number (which it may) I can’t see why this wouldn’t work.
Bottom Line
I appreciate that a lot of US readers will have a Priority Pass membership courtesy of one of the credit or charge cards that offer it as a benefit….but there will also be those who don’t have (or don’t want) the $450+ cards that offer Priority Pass membership and this may be a way for them to save some cash.
If anyone tries this please let me know the results – one way or the other it would be useful to know if this works or not.
Link to the UK Priority Pass website
